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Sunday, December 23, 1979 · Chicago Stadium

Islanders 0 at Blackhawks 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 81OVR Bob Murray Blackhawks First Star 4A · 4 SOG C 84OVR Terry Ruskowski Blackhawks Second Star 1G · 3A · 1 SOG D 92OVR Doug Wilson Blackhawks Third Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 12:52 Grant Mulvey (15) Bob Murray (13), Terry Ruskowski (21) NYI 0 – 1 CHI
  2. 16:48 Grant Mulvey (16) PPG Bob Murray (14), Terry Ruskowski (22) NYI 0 – 2 CHI
  3. 17:05 Alain Daigle (4) PPG Ted Bulley (6), Tom Lysiak (14) NYI 0 – 3 CHI

2nd Period

  1. 5:25 Grant Mulvey (17) PPG Terry Ruskowski (23), Rich Preston (10) NYI 0 – 4 CHI
  2. 6:23 Tom Lysiak (8) PPG Mike O'connell (14), Doug Wilson (12) NYI 0 – 5 CHI

3rd Period

  1. 6:55 Rich Preston (9) SHG Bob Murray (15) NYI 0 – 6 CHI
  2. 11:27 Terry Ruskowski (8) Bob Murray (16), Doug Wilson (13) NYI 0 – 7 CHI
  3. 19:07 Doug Wilson (4) PPG Tom Lysiak (15), Ted Bulley (7) NYI 0 – 8 CHI

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Clark Gillies L 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.23
Steve Tambellini C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
John Tonelli L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Anders Kallur C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lorne Henning C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mike Bossy R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Stefan Persson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dave Lewis D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Billy Harris R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Alex McKendry L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Jean Potvin D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Bob Bourne C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Garry Howatt L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.75
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.75
Dave Langevin D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch — 24 20 4 .833 34:35 -1.00
Billy Smith L 17 13 4 .765 25:25 -1.70

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bob Murray D 0 4 4 0 0 +3 0:00 3.25
Terry Ruskowski C 1 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 3.00
Doug Wilson D 1 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.68
Tom Lysiak C 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Rich Preston R 1 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.90
Ted Bulley L 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Mike O'connell D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Alain Daigle R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
Grant Mulvey R 3 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
John Marks R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Cliff Koroll R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Doug Lecuyer L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Keith Brown D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tim Higgins R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Fox D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.08
Reg Kerr C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tony Esposito W 24 24 0 1.000 60:00 2.40